David Guterson Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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I totally had OCD as a teenager. I used to have to touch all four sides of a picture frame when I got home from school and before I started to do my homework. It was time-consuming. But then I just outgrew it, though it sometimes comes back when I'm under a lot of stress.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
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When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. - Mr. Spencer
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They (Extreme) surround themselves with these professional, dickhead, commercial rock and roll guys...when they show up at an airport, their manager runs ahead of them and yells at the people greeting them, 'No video! We want a path straight to the van! We don't want any pictures taken!' Y'know, I'm like, 'So what?'
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These are the visionary, mystical moments, when a man 'completes his partial mind'. His everyday conscious self is only a small part of the mind, like the final crescent of the moon. In moments of crisis, the full moon suddenly appears.
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Life's picking up speed.
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If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
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I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.
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There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.
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In old times, men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith; in later times, they used the objects of faith that they might show their powers of painting.
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Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
